what the mother forbade. When God tells us to keep His day holy,
every one of us who disobeys that command must suffer. Let us see how
it works. Bishop Vincent says: 'Sunday is ill-spent if it sends us
back to our weekly work irritated, weary and reluctant'--and Sunday
will never do that for us unless we misuse the day which God has given
us. If we spend the day in worrying about our everyday affairs, if we
spend it in chasing around after senseless amusements which weary the
body without enlightening the heart and the mind, if we allow
ourselves to follow paths which lead away from truth and right, then
we will show up Monday morning irritated, weary and reluctant and our
Sunday observance temperature is low indeed. [With red chalk, fill
the bulb and a portion of the thermometer tube, completing Fig. 66.]

"But Bishop Vincent also says, 'Sunday is well spent if it sends us
back refreshed in body, mind and spirit to take up our duties with new
inspiration of hope, patience and courage.' And we can all do this;
and, as we do it, we shall find a growing delight in it. If we have
been wasting our Sundays--spending them in such a way that when Monday
morning comes we look back upon the Sabbath with regret--let us begin
right now to form habits which shall make Sunday a delight--the
brightest, the most restful, the most interesting, the most refreshing
of all times. And let us be thankful that a day of this kind can come
to us so often. It is then that our Sunday observance temperature will
rise to its highest point. [With red chalk add lines to complete
Fig. 67.]

[Illustration: Fig. 67]

"Dr. Lyman Abbott, like many others points out the folly of attending
church services in the morning and then passing the remainder of the
day in noisy or wearisome celebration. He calls it a 'weekly composite
of Thanksgiving and Fourth of July,'--Thanksgiving in the quiet of the
morning, and Fourth of July in the noisy afternoon.

"Such an observance of the day is displeasing to God who gave us the
day for our greatest good and not to be wasted in idleness and folly.

"Keeping the Lord's day holy doesn't deprive us of activity, but it
changes the course of our action from paths of wastefulness to fields
of the greatest good. There are many things to do on Sunday, and in
the doing of some of them right at your hands, you will have
discovered the best way for you to get the most out of one of God's
greatest gifts to his children."